The Bihar Police on Tuesday afternoon resorted to lathicharge against a group of protesting contract teachers. The teachers had been protesting peacefully when suddenly the police started raining blows on them. ...
04:41 PM, Mar 05, 2013
Bihar's ruling Janata Dal(United) on Thursday retained the Kalyanpur assembly seat, with its candidate Manju Kumari defeating Lok Janshakti Party's Rekha Paswan by over 17,000 votes, an election official said. ...
11:01 AM, Feb 28, 2013
Bihar Assembly on Tuesday saw bedlam with RJD members demanding resignation of two BJP ministers for allegedly calling them 'Pakistani agents' after they protested against school students being made to do the 'surya namakar' yoga asana. RJD members started shouting that the two ministers called them 'Pakistani agents' during Governor Devanand Konwar's address to the joint session of the state legislature on Monday and claimed that RSS agenda was being...
10:07 PM, Feb 19, 2013
The Bihar assembly's month-long budget session began in Patna on Monday on a stormy note as the opposition parties attacked the government over its liquor policy, poor law and order situation, and rampant corruption in the state. ...
10:15 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Bihar legislature on Thursdsay paid rich tributes to Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, noted filmmaker Yash Chopra, 'milkman' Verghese Kurien among others on the opening day of its Winter Session. Thackeray who passed away in Mumbai on November 17 was paid tributes by members in the Legislative Council in the presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is an MLC. ...
03:44 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Patna: Bihar government would not allow illegal mining activities in the state and none involving in it would get 'political patronage', Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said in the Assembly on Thursday. Announcing this, Kumar urged Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary to allow debate on the raging issue in the Assembly. Chaudhary, who had rejected RJD MLA Samrat Chaudhary's adjournment motion on illegal mining activities on the ground that it was not...
03:11 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Patna: Ruling JD(U) in Bihar on Friday said it had identified more than a dozen party leaders and 500 activists who allegedly indulged in anti-party activities during and before the Assembly elections for taking disciplinary action against them. "We have identified over a dozen party leaders, including MPs and former MLAs who indulged in anti-party activities during or before the assembly elections in Bihar," state JD(U) Disciplinary committee convener Gyanendra...
04:10 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Patna: Former Bihar chief minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) head Lalu Prasad will on Thursday meet Election Commission officials to formally complain about alleged irregularities in electronic voting machines (EVMs) in the recently held assembly polls. "Lalu will meet top officials of the commission in New Delhi on December 23 and petition a complaint about the irregularities in EVMs. He will meet the officials with a team of technical...
11:55 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Rahul Gandhi campaigned hard for the Bihar elections by travelling through 17 districts and holding 16 rallies. But the Congress has had a disastrous showing in Bihar, winning just 4 out of 243 seats. ...
07:18 AM, Nov 26, 2010
New Delhi: With the outcome of the verdict on Bihar, CNN-IBN and IBN7 have yet again proved that Elections Equals CNN-IBN and IBN7. The post poll survey conducted by the two channels in partnership with The Week was bang on. The survey telecast on November 20 had revealed that JD(U)-BJP combine will sweep Bihar with 185-201 seats. These results reveal yet another triumph for the best team in political journalism....
11:24 AM, Nov 25, 2010
New Delhi: With the outcome of the verdict on Bihar, CNN-IBN and IBN7 have yet again proved that Elections Equals CNN-IBN and IBN7. The post poll survey conducted by the two channels in partnership with The Week was bang on. The survey telecast on November 20 had revealed that JD(U)-BJP combine will sweep Bihar with 185-201 seats. These results reveal yet another triumph for the best team in political journalism....
11:24 AM, Nov 25, 2010
The results this time has also showcased a strong BJP, wining a considerable number of seats themselves. ...
08:36 AM, Nov 25, 2010
Nitish Kumar is back with a bang in Bihar assembly polls. He sweeps to power in Bihar again. ...
07:52 AM, Nov 25, 2010
Patna: Stating that he respected the mandate of the people, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Chief Lalu Prasad on Wednesday congratulated Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for the victory of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine in the assembly elections. "We respect the mandate of the people, we congratulate the new government," Lalu Prasad said, addressing a joint press conference with LJP leader Ramvilas Paswan. However, he said...
04:03 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Patna: Nitish Kumar has swept the Assembly elections and is known as an icon of Bihari pride. Nitish is an unlikely Bihari politician. His style is low key, he shuns rhetoric and in a state known for its unchanging casteism and 'dabangs', he speaks the language of development and law and order. "We have brought law and order to Bihar. People know that the government cares for them," Nitish had...
03:58 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Narendra Modi congratulates the BJP and the JD(U) leaders in Bihar for the victory. ...
03:50 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Patna: Often called Chanakya for his political astuteness, engineer-politician Nitish Kumar blended his secularist ideology with pragmatic politics and combined the development plank with innovative social engineering equations in Bihar to bask in glory yet again. Doing an encore after Wednesday's landslide victory, the 59-year-old Chief Minister with his trademark kurta pyjama and grey stubble has become Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) strongman Lalu Prasad's nemesis single handedly contributing to the...
03:04 PM, Nov 24, 2010
Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, basking in the glory of the massive mandate secured by the Janata Dal(United)-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance in the state, thanked the people of the state for giving him another chance to serve them. Crediting the massive victory to the development work carried out by his government during its first term, Kumar said that there was still a lot of work to be done. "I...
02:22 PM, Nov 24, 2010
New Delhi: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Wednesday said it was disappointed by the Bihar Assembly poll results. "Our number of seats have gone down in Bihar Assembly. Naturally we are disappointed," CPI-M leader Brinda Karat said outside Parliament. CPI and CPI-M have so far drawn a blank in the Bihar polls which have been swept by the JD(U)-BJP alliance. Congratulating JD(U)-BJP on their good performance, she said,...
01:17 PM, Nov 24, 2010
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday admitted that the party has been routed in Bihar. She said that the Bihar results indicate that the party will have to start from the scratch in the state. "We did not have much hope. We took a deliberate decision not to work in alliance with other parties," said Sonia Gandhi on Bihar elections. "Results in Bihar elections indicate that our party...
01:12 PM, Nov 24, 2010
